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American Philosophical Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Illinois Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-0481Verify ISSN ↗2152-1123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 159 / 891 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1988, 1979–1980, 1977, 1973), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
American Philosophical Quarterly is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 159 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
American Philosophical Quarterly is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.616, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
American Philosophical Quarterly is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0003-0481 and its online ISSN is 2152-1123.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Philosophical Quarterly has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 30.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
American Philosophical Quarterly published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.9%), United Kingdom (11.9%) and Germany (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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